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"Brothers of Italy is not a fascist party – but it is an ideological heir to the post-fascist tradition," says journalist Paolo Berizzi.

Asked whether the EPP’s outreach to Italian post-fascist leader Giorgia Meloni undermined the conservatives’ stance toward the far right, Weber said it was important to work with all European governments to tackle the challenge of migration.

Other European countries have tacked to the right in recent years, including Italy, which is governed by a coalition under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, leader of a party with post-Fascist roots; Sweden, which in September swapped a center-left government for a right-wing bloc; and Spain, which will hold a snap national election next month after the Socialist Workers’ Party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was thumped in regional and local elections.

At home, Berlusconi jumped into coalition government with the post-fascist far-right - until then a taboo in post-war Italy - rendering them more socially acceptable as a result.

Eugenio Pizzimenti, a politics professor at Pisa University, said Berlusconi's death could lay the ground for Meloni to give up for good her party's post-fascist roots and usher in a new political force.